example finder

[dummy_decoy]

launching the example finder from CVI does not work anymore: a button appears on the taskbar but nothing happens and the application does not respond to anything. i have to kill it.

now when i launch the example finder directly from its location on the disk, it gives an error message saying that: "An error occured while trying to find your NI application software name. An expected shared library may be missing". then i find myself browsing the LabView example and THERE IS NO WAY TO TELL THE FINDER THAT I WANT TO BROWSE THE CVI SAMPLES ! but i don't care about LabView, i don't want LabView, LabView is not even installed on my computer. i want to browse the cvi samples !

[LuisG]

You're correct. It is a known issue that in some machines, the example finder is hanging when you launch it from CVI. Sometimes the problem only happens the first time you launch it, but we've also seen it happen more than once.

This is being fixed in an upcoming CVI 8.5 maintenance release.

The example finder was not intended to be launched as a standalone app, because it relies on a messy set of command line options in order to differentiate whether it is being used for CVI or for LabVIEW, among other things. However, given that you're stuck not being able to use it until the bug is fixed, I can provide you with the command line that you need to pass to it if you're going to run it standalone:

""C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\Example Finder\1.0\bin\NIExampleFinder.exe" -- cvi 8.5 locale,en denyfolders,cvibuild.:cvidistkit.:.lnk "browsepaths,C\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\National Instruments\CVI85\samples:C\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\National Instruments\CVI\samples:C\Program Files\National Instruments\CVI85\samples""

I used the default installation locations, so do make sure that these paths are also the same in your case.

Luis